Elena POV:
I silently walked down the stairs, making my way towards the living room; I could see the glow from the TV. Stefan had never came to bed, and I went to check on Jace sure enough the two of them were downstairs again. As I entered the living room, my heart melted at the sight in front of me. Stefan was lying on the couch, Jace sprawled out on top of him, his head on Stefan's chest. I tore my eyes away from them to the television. I watched the news anchor reporting, people running ramped in the background, dead bodies littering the streets. A tear rolled down my cheek, as I looked back at Jace. I was met with Stefans green orbs, he had woken up, he could hear my heart beat quicken when I started to cry.
"How can you love someone so much as to do something so terrible?" I questioned. Damon and Bonnie loved Jace so much they were willing to do anything for him. Stefan had now sat up, adjusting jace in his arms so I could sit down next to him,
"that's easy, I would do it for you" he replied kissing my cheek.
"They have only been gone for a short time, and things are already taking a turn for the worse, how can they go a decade and come back from that, come back from all the horrible things they are doing now?" I cried. He looked straight in my eyes, and gave me an honest answer
"you don't."
Stefan POV:
I sat at the kitchen table, waiting for Elena to wake up, waiting for Jace to wake up. Waiting for my brother and Bon to walk down the stairs like old times. Waiting for something that wasn't going to happen any time soon. I thought back to what I had said last night. " how does someone come back from that?"…"you don't." I had told Elena the honest Damon, Bonnie, and I had gone through bloodlust in the past it had taken a part of us away that we could never get back, even to this day it haunts me, what Ive done in the past. But the truth is we had only been going through that for a year or two in the past, this is a decade were talking about. I wasn't too sure myself they would ever be the same again. I was broken out of my thoughts by the sound of little footsteps walking down the hallway. "Hey there lil man" I smiled. He continued to walk sitting down at the table. I got up and began our morning ritual, getting his lucky charms in his favorite bowel. I placed them in front of Jace, and sat back down. I watched him pick at his cereal.
"Uncle Stefan" he started,
"Mommy told me once that the bad man was afraid of me, cuz I was almost stronger than him." I smiled remembering back when Bonnie was pregnant,
"yeah that's true buddy, when you were in mommys tummy, you scared him very much" I watched his face, he was in deep concentration.
"well if he was scared then, is he scared now?" I sat and thought, something we had all forgotten, he was still afraid of Jace, Jace could still be a threat to him, Jace continued on,
"if hes afraid of me, cant I bring mommy and daddy back" he smiled.
